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The Heterogeneous Nature of Our External Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We identify ourselves with the constructed ego personality that
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  we have assumed. We have certain ideas, feelings,
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  relationships, preferences, desires, ambitions, fears, and
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  motivations of various sorts. We treat this ego personality as
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  a unified whole and do not usually investigate the varying
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  ways we respond to situations or the internal conflicts that
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  arise between our desires, for instance, and our rational
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  minds. Sometimes we struggle with these
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  conflicts without recognizing that they represent separate
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  parts of the being that each have their own motivational and
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  need structure. For instance, we have a desire
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  for a certain food, but our rational mind tells us that it
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  is not healthy for us to consume it.
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  Or we are antagonized in a situation and our first reaction
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  is to express anger and fight, while our mind tells us that it
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  is going to have negative consequences and we should
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  simply walk away. There are endless numbers of
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  such conflicts within our being. Shrioro, Bindo and the mother
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  describe these variances and conflicts within the being as
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  resulting from different parts of the being that have their own
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  separate evolutionary development and powers and which
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  do not always agree with each other.
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  The constructed ego personality attempts to avoid recognizing
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  the inherent conflicting motivations between the
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  physical, the vital, the emotional, the basic mental and
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  the higher mental consciousness, as well As for those who have
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  awakened to it the promptings of the soul.
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  The psychic being, which becomes an organizing factor for all
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  these diverse and divergent parts of our being once we have
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  identified with it and begin to accept its guidance and
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  direction as the source of our external beings actions.
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  A disciple asks You say that it is necessary to establish
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  homogeneity in our being. The mother responds quote.
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  Don't you know what a homogeneous thing is made-up of
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  similar parts? That means the whole being must
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  be under the same influence, same consciousness, same
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  tendency, same will. We are formed of all kinds of
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  different pieces. They become active one after
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  another. According to the part that is
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  active, one is quite another person.
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  It becomes almost another personality.
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  For instance, one had an aspiration, at first, felt that
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  everything existed only for the divine.
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  Then something happens, somebody comes along, one has to do
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  something and everything disappears.
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  One tries to recall the experience, not even the memory
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  of the experience remains. 1 is completely under another
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  influence. One wonders how this could have
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  happened. There are examples of double,
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  triple, quadruple personalities altogether unconscious of
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  themselves. But it is not about this I am
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  speaking. I am speaking about something
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  which has happened to all of you.
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  You have had an experience and for some time you have felt
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  understood that this experience was the only thing that was
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  important, that had an absolute value.
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  Half an hour later you try to recall it.
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  It is like a smoke that vanishes.
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  The experience has disappeared. And yet half an hour ago it was
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  there and so powerful. It is because one is made of all
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  kinds of different things. The body is like a bag of
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  pebbles and pearls all mixed up, and it is only the bag which
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  keeps all that together. This is not a homogeneous
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  uniform consciousness, but a heterogeneous one.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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  Mother. The psychic being soul, its
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  nature, mission and evolution. Section 2.
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  Role, function and Action of the Psychic.
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  Pages 67 to 68.